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| 2002/12/23 [Uncategorized] UID:26888 Activity:high |
12/22 How find date for New Year's?
\_ C'mon, you don't even get to see the outside of the cookie jar for
a *weak* troll like this. You'll welcome to work on it and try
again later.
\_ You'll? You mean: Your welcome to work on it...
\_ If you want to troll like a fob, at least start your question
properly ("How to")
\_ January 1 |
| 2002/12/23 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:26889 Activity:low |
12/22 I need a recommendation for GUI word processor and SpreadSheet
applications to run on a LinuxLaptop that only has 40MB ram and
a slow Pentium CPU? Is Abiword good? OpenOffice requires a bit
more hardware that this machine has.
\_ Dos 5.0, MS Word 4.x, Lotus123 or any other SS from that time.
It'll run faster than your linux system and get the job done.
\_ Applixware (or SO 3.x or 4.x) |
| 2002/12/23 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:26890 Activity:insanely high |
11/22 Homeland Security: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/monahan1.html \_ Wow. this made me feel physically ill. \_ How ill did 9/11 make you feel? -ax \_ 9/11 has nothing to do with this. This is incompetence in the highest degree. Airport security is a sham at best. \_ Airport security is about "feeling" same and "appearing" safe. Its not about being safe. The problem is that most people prefer the perception of security to actual security. \_ and terrorism is about "appearing" unsafe. even after 9/11 it's much safer to fly than to drive. more americans have died from cars than all the wars in american history, yet cars are percieved as normal and people will refiuse to fly for the slight risk of something happening. the fundamental problem is that people are fucking idiots. \_ 9/11 was repulsive, but this is equally repulsive. If the response to terrrorism is to nullify the bill of rights then the country we live in is no longer America. "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." \_ Where does it say in the constitution you are guaranteed the right to air travel without search? Plus, comparing this to 9/11 is saying breast groping is equal to 3000 deaths. I've had by chest groped, I don't think they are equal.-ax \_ This single incident is representative of the thousands of similar occurences in airports nationwide that go unreported. Each violation of the rights of the individual by the state is fundamentally wrong. If you think that the appropriate response to 9/11 is to forgo the rights of the individual (as enumerated in the BoR) and let the state do whatever it wants to the citizens then you don't understand the essence the American Experiment. \_ " The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated." It says it right there. \_ You agreed to be searched when you voluntarily entered the airport to fly. You could have not flown and then you wouldn't have been searched. That sounds reasonable to me. -ax \_ what was that someone saying about people being fucking idiots? \_ It is not at all saying they're the same. But you tell a mother that endangering her baby's health is worth the "increased security" this purportedly provides and she'll smack your ass, and rightly so. --scotsman \_ Choosing to fly while pregnant is a big risk, if you really cared about your baby, you wouldn't fly while pregnant. My wife isn't. -ax \_ you're letting someone immigrate out of your wife's womb? shock! dismay! \_ While I agree with this, some people don't have a choice and in America one has a reasonable expectation to be secure in one's person and property against search (Amd. IV) \_ The Fourth Amendment was already shredded during the "war on drugs." How many times do you think this and far worse indignities were perpetrated on poor people in America in the last 30 years? The only difference this time is that a middle class reporter's wife is getting groped. The chickens have indeed come home to roost. \_ I don't support the war on drugs. But I once had hope that we could recover from it and restore the constitution without bloodshed. Now it seems the only way to take back America is in the way the way of the founding fathers. \_ Zero Tolerance, baby. Love it or leave it. \_ I love America. In America such things should not happen. \_ Have you guys heard of martial law? When you are at war, your rights get modified. That is a sacrifice every American is expected to make for the good of the country. Guess what, if we win the war, you get your rights back. If we lose, you don't. -ax \_ Wow. You really, actually believe the Bushies intend to give you your rights back if they "win". That's just...I mean, I don't even think Ann Coulter or one of them would make that claim. \_ Ok, no one gives up any rights, and the terrorists keep crashing planes into our buildings until the government collapses, and the terrorists now rule the U.S. Do you think you have a bill of rights then? People just assume the US lives forever. Did you ever think it might get killed off someday? -ax \_ This is the same excuse that we heard during the "war on drugs." This war is the same: defined so that it is unwinnable, thereby justifying a permanent state of emergency. \_ I asked this once before and people called me a pedant or whatever, but I'll ask it again. Did Congress actually declare war on something? Or can we be under martial law just because the President calls a police action a "war"? -geordan \_ One last question, for those of you unwilling to yield any of your rights under any cirumstance, are you willing to serve your country in the armed forces in a time of dire need? -ax \_ I would bet there are very very few people who are "unwilling to yield any of [their] rights under any circumstances." You're polarizing the discussion, thus undermining your point. I personally think that all politics has been distilling down to exactly this distinction: for what are you willing to sacrifice which liberties. Also, I would be willing to serve in homeland defense, but not in an armed forces dedicated to economic protection on foreign soil for the sake of a few very powerful people. --scotsman \_ Polarizing the argument is the point. My point is that the majority of people commenting don't care enough about this country to make ANY sacrifice for it. Your constitutional rights are guaranteed by the ability of the US government and military to maintain the soverignty of our nation, not by simply stating them in a motd. The constitution would be meaningless if instead of bearing arms against foreign enemies, our founding fathers sat around debating endlessly against those taking action because it might infringe on their "rights". -ax \_ exactly how is a pregnant white woman from L.A. a "foreign enemy"? -tom \_ She might have had exploding breasts!! -ax :) \_ There's plenty of criticism here. What's the solution? Do nothing? For those who are so quick to poke holes in the current strategy, what's yours? -ax \_ Kick the shit out of our enemies so they are afraid of us again. Nothing is served, or stopped, by fucking up our lives. \_ I don't see any problem which is solved by lying on police reports in order to be able to arrest American citizens and threaten them with felonies for no real reason. The question is not how to "solve" the terrorism problem, the question is, what real purpose is served by such gestapo tactics? -tom |
| 2002/12/23-24 [Recreation/Media] UID:26891 Activity:very high |
12/22 LOTR2: Enjoyed the movie but I was getting tired of the insane
number of closeups, especially in combats, where all I could see was
a blur with associated sword noises. It would've been nice to actually
_see_ the battle(s). The rest was very well done IMO. A-.
\_ you probably wish you could click on alternate angles huh?
You probably want to be able to zoom in and zoom out, just
like a video game.
\_ only because it was all blurred out closeups and i couldn't see
\_ mostly. Faramir was portrayd wrong, but other than that,
a damned thing most of the time. was that thing where he can
'hear' the orcs tromping around a full day ahead of him really
in the books? and is gandalf really "300 men's lives old"?
\_ Yes, and yes.
\_ Where does it say how old Gandalf is? -geordan
\_ The Istari arrived in Middle earth around year 1000
of the Third Age. This info is buried somewhere
in ROTK but I don't remember where it was. --aaron
\_ The arrival of Istari has nothing to do with
Gandalf's actual age, as he is older than Arda.
The line in the movie actually says something about
'wandering Middle Earth for 300 men's lives',
which might make sense given aaron's info (and
you don't count using Numenorean men). -- ilyas
\_ has anyone read the Silmarillion?
just wondering.
\_ I did. -- ilyas
\_ I actually enjoyed it. One of the two
people worldwide who did. -geordan
\_ yeah, not many people liked it.
I bet that book could shed light
on middle earth history.
\_ gee, you think that a book about
middle earth history could shed light
on middle earth history? what will
they think of next?
\_ does the Silmarillion mention
Gandalf?
\_ Why yes. Yes it does.
\_ If you get past or skip the beginning
"valaquenta" the rest is quite readable.
\_ so... it was like LOTR1?
\_ mostly. Faramir was portrayed wrong, but other than that,
it was great.
\_ Was he really? He never took the ring from Frodo. He took
Frodo for Gondor, not for himself, and immediately sent him to
to Faramir, and sets up the conflict between him and his father
in RoTK better IMO. I didn't like it at first, but I like it
better now. -emarkp
his father--not to keep for himself. It gave more screen time
\- the father isbeing played by marlon brando! --psb
to Faramir, and sets up the conflict between him and his
father in RoTK better IMO. I didn't like it at first, but I
like it better now. -emarkp [ reformatted - formatd ]
\_ This really annoyed me. Faramir is supposed to show the
antithesis to Boromir. He is supposed to show more hope that
man will not necessarily screw things up (more hope along
with Aragon). He is supposed to understand Frodo's plight
and pain more than the rest. I thought this was a grevious
mistake. The Entmoot also happened differently, but I can
forgive that due to time constraints. Overall, however, I
thought they did a good job. Moving the end of the second
book also annoyed me, not as good of a cliffhanger as the
book was.
\_ Agreed on the Faramir issue. The movie basically
ruined the entire point of Faramir's character, and I
can't see how this modification would help the
relationship that develops in RotK. It is unforgivable
in my opinion. -geordan
\_ See it a second time, although I agree in principle,
the movie hung together better on review. They had
to move the ending because ROTK is actually pretty
short, so they needed to push Shelob to ROTK. --aaron
\_ ok, i agree about shelob, but why take a detour
to gondor? what's the point? sam's monolog didn't
add, and making faramir unwise was just crazy. if
they wanted to save time, why add the gondor thing?
\_ To add spice and screen time to the trip to
Mordor. With Faramir, to show the corruptive
power of the Ring vs. humans. With Sam, to make
the later Shelob incident and his reasons for
sticking with Frodo more credible.
\_ But the point of Faramir is that he is one
of the last glimmers of nobility and honor
among Men. I think Peter Jackson was too
heavy-handed with his theme that the Entire
Race of Men (save for Aragorn) Sucks.
Even Theoden, who was supposed to have been
brought back to his original, nobler
stature by Gandalf, comes off as a pompous
ass at times, and a coward in others (in
the movie it is Aragorn, not Theoden, who
asks to ride out of Helm's Deep as a final
charge). -geordan
\_ I think you're taking it too personally.
There are Noble Men in 3T, but Faramir needs to look bad in those
scenes to extend Frodo and Sam's screen time/storyline. Theoden was
to make Aragon the big hero with the big payoff in the last movie.
It's only 10 hours of movie. You can't put in that much nuance and
still keep people awake and watching. Especially non-Tolkien fans.
\_ I agree. I also think they screwed up in making Gimli
into a comic-relief doofus. His axe needed to be bigger.
\_ two towers pretty good. gollum/smeagol good. faramir
bad. GIANT ORC BATTLES good. slimy wormtongue good.
gandalf is jesus christ... eh. hot hobbit on hobbit
action good.
\_ The axe is fine. You've been looking at too many
fantasy drawings/painting/miniatures. And someone has
to be a comic relief in the film.
\_ it's horrible that they gave Gimli's line about the
defense of Helm's Deep to Theoden. -tom
\_ Which line is that?
\_ In the book, Gimli is raphsodizing about Helm's
Deep (he's a dwarf, it's a cave) and says
"Give my people a year and we could make this
a fortress that armies would break upon like
water." In the movie, Theoden says a modified
version of the line, which makes no sense. -tom
\_ And it has the effect of making Theoden look
reckless, arrogant, and unwise, furthering
the Entire Race of Men Sucks theme. -geordan
\_ Liv tyler still looks asian-ish to me. I think the long beautiful
black hair really throws me off track here. I love women with
long beautiful black hair. :-)
\_ You've got Yellow Fever(tm)!
\_ get a fucking life
\_ hey, are you the guy who decided to "break up" with liv tyler
because she's a smoking airhead?
\- i think <DEAD>smoking-airhead.berkeley.edu<DEAD> would
be a good name for a csua computer --psb
\_ Get it right. It's smoking-slut-bitch.
\_ Someone hasn't gotten a blowjob in a while.
\_ he's a sodan. you're being obvious and redundant.
\_ to each his own. i like the way smoking is juxtaposed
to air.
\_ Good point. Smoking airhead it is... |
| 2002/12/23-25 [Consumer/Camera] UID:26892 Activity:high 50%like:25913 |
12/23 Are there SLR digital cameras?
\_ Not Really. Yes, there are SLRs, but they are not true
"35mm" SLRs. The CCD is not the same size as the film
(24mm X 36mm), as result, the lens you have will not
be the same effective focal length nor apature.
a 50mm f/1.4 will become something like 70mm f/2.3
-- photo geek still waiting
\- there are now 35mm SLR but they are $$$.
and the essence of an "SLR" isn't the
35mm part, who while the caveat is reasonable
"not really" overstates things. in fact there
are even larger format digitals take a look
at bhphoto. --psb
\_ well, for me, the important aspect of
SLRis being able to use dozen lenses
I already have.
\_ then you are limited by the brand
of lenses you currently have.
\_ Yes.
\_ yes. you can add regular lenses to them. They cost at least
$2000 without the lense.
\_ D30s (3mp) are available on ebay for ~1200.
\_ would you trust buying anything from ebay over $1000?
\_ Sure. Know the seller. Most are camera shops with a
virtual presence via Ebay.
\_ I bought a $2K laptop over eBay... no problems.
\_ Olympus makes one for about a G. Not that I would ever buy Olympus.. |
| 2002/12/23-24 [Finance/Banking, Transportation/Car, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:26893 Activity:insanely high |
12/23 What's the best way to destroy CDRs? The best practical way?
\_ Sissors.
\_ Toss it out the window while driving along on the freeway.
There's no way any one will look there.
\_ The feds can and will stop traffic to recover
the cds. Best way is the next post if you are
currently being watched. If not go for either
the commerical grinders or scissors. BTW, the
best soln. to the problem of destroying cdrs
is to encrypt the cdrs and keep the private
key on easy to destroy magnetic media (or
equivalent). If the feds come for you just
trash the private key (make sure its suitably
long that they can't brute force it within
what most judges would consider required for
\_ Depends on how small the pieces are and whether
all of the pieces that contain the info you want
are available. A good practice is to cut the cds
into several (8 or so) pieces and to stick some
a "speedy trial"). This way, they will never
be able to recover the data, and without the
data there can be no conviction.
\_ Steel trash can, well-ventilated area, lighter fluid.
\_ the coating with the data is some kind of polymer. find the
right solvent, and dissolve it.
\_ HCl ought to do the trick
\_ these two solutions almsot certainly have environmental
and health consequences. -tom
\_ kill the elves! - sarumon
\_ bah! environment, health... you liberal treehugger!
\_ Last time I checked, the polymer contains Cyanide, not something
you really want to dissolve and allow the fluid go anywhere, no
do you really want to burn it and inhale the gas.
\_ Scissors. [spelling corrected --motd spelling nazi]
\_ you can still extract data from cut CDs right?
\_ Depends on how small the pieces are and the number
of the pieces that are required to reassemble
incriminating info. A good practice is to cut the
cds into several (8 or so) pieces and to stick some
of the pieces in the trash, then in recycle and
then ditch some at work and others at the mall.
This makes it really hard for anyone to get at
the data while making it pretty easy for you to
dispose of it. Note that this strategy isn't
going to work against the feds.
\_ why? because they search all those places
or something?
\_ the OP could be under suveillance *right*
*now* with the feds pouncing on every ounce
of waste he produces, whether at work, at
home, mid-car drive, or anywhere else.
\_ Sander.
\_ Microwave.
\_ Note this can option can have adverse health
consequences.
\_ place upside down on parking lot, pirouette.
\_ paint the cover with AOL logo.
\_ There are commercial grinders available that will batch-destroy
a large set of CDs reliably.
\- is this is same person involved in the post-browse cleanup?
are you involved in child p0rn or something? --psb
\_ completely new OP |
| 2002/12/23 [Computer/HW/Drives, Computer/SW] UID:26894 Activity:nil |
12/23 It seems that my "virtual" colo doesn't have an fstab or an mtab.
(not surprising i guess, since i don't really have my own physical
hard drive). Anyone know of a way for me to install "quota"
functionality without being able to change my fstab? Do you think
I would break shit if i removed mtab (currently a link to /proc/mounts)
and replaced it with a plain text file exactly the same but with a
txt file containing the same info except with the quota tag too? |